Senior DevOps Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$184,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading the evolution of infrastructure operations within the Networking Software group, building, automating, and operating scalable platforms that support networking software development and testing.
What you'll do
- Build, provision, configure, and maintain scalable Linux infrastructure for networking feature creation and validation.
- Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, software deployment, and operations.
- Build reusable tools and self-service capabilities to simplify infrastructure operations and improve engineering efficiency.
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues across hardware, firmware, operating systems, virtualization, containers, storage, and network communications.
- Implement monitoring, observability, capacity management, and reliability practices to improve infrastructure performance.
- Provide technical leadership, guide infrastructure initiatives, and mentor team members in automation and troubleshooting.
What you'll need
- 6+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure operations, with hands-on experience coordinating production or engineering Linux environments.
- Experience in the semiconductor industry or a hardware-focused engineering environment, with expertise in bare-metal Linux systems and server components.
- Proficiency in generative AI tools and skill in applying them to automation, troubleshooting, and operational analysis.
- Skilled at diagnosing complex issues across hardware, firmware, and operating-system layers.
- Strong data-center networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, and firewalls.
Skills: Linux infrastructure, networking feature creation, automation, Kubernetes, hardware, firmware, operating systems, data-center networking
This role has been open 25 days — well below the 53-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
933
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (933 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 287 | 933 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1002 | 6116 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 53 d (−10 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Linux infrastructure, networking feature creation, automation, Kubernetes, hardware, firmware, operating systems, data-center networking
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 270 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 60 open roles · median 58 d
- AMD · 52 open roles · median 32 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 88 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 78 d
- Intel Corporation · 37 open roles · median 13 d
How we counted: 933 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 13 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.